“We are prepared to give blood to save Venezuela from American Imperialists.”

"To those who say that the United States is only interested in our oil, I ask those people:

What do you think the Russians and the Chinese wanted from us?

The recipe for Arepas?"

They can even capture him from 3300 kilometers away? Damn! Shame on myself

"We've seen how our adversaries all over the world are exploiting and extracting resources from Africa, from every other country. They're not going to do it in the Western Hemisphere. That is NOT going to happen under President Trump... He is serious about it."

“We don’t need Venezuela’s oil. We have plenty of oil in the United States.

What we will not allow is for Venezuela’s oil industry to be controlled by adversaries of the United States.

You have to understand: why does China need Venezuela’s oil? Why does Russia need it? Why does Iran need it? They aren’t even on this continent.”

"There's not a war. We are at war against drug trafficking organizations, not a war against Venezuela."

“Is the Cuban Government the Trump Administration's next target?”

“Well, the Cuban government is a huge problem. Yeah.”

“Is that a yes?”

“I think they're in a lot of trouble, yes. I’m not going to talk to you about what our future steps are going to be and our policies are going to be right now in this regard. But I don’t think it’s a mystery that we are not big fans of the Cuban Regime.

The ones who have sort of colonized Venezuela, at least inside the regime, are Cubans. It was Cubans that guarded Maduro.

He was not guarded by Venezuelan bodyguards. He had Cuban bodyguards.

In terms of their internal intelligence — who spies on who inside to make sure there are no traitors — those are all Cubans.”